Trying to fire-up new ATI Radeon 64mb

[paracer]

I receive video error beeps when I power-up the PC (with a new ATI Radeon 64mg in it), and it halts before it gets a chance to post; and I know that this could mean a bad card.

So not to spend trouble-shooting time, could mobo/chipset compatibility issues and/or bios setting issues be causing this? (as I have yet to address, but know of them) . . . or, does the boot process not even get that far . . . ?

Thanks for any answers.

[This message has been edited by paracer (edited 08-01-2001).]

[SimonTemplar]

Hi,
What kind of mobo do you have? I have an ASUS A7A266 and had the same problem with the Radeon until I really jammed the thing in harder into the AGP slot. As far as compatiblity issues I don't know of any boards that would not support the card. Sorry could not help more, but push the card in really hard.

[paracer]

Thanks Simon. I will try that.

The mobo I have is a Gigabyte GA-5AX (sock7 w/AGP) and a AMD K6 3D 500 processor.

Reading up on some support info and FAQ's, I know there are some preferred bios settings (tried some). But not knowing enough about exactly how the initialization process happens, and I didn't want to be goofing around with a bad vid card.

I'll report . . . Thx Joe

[paracer]

The card is seated properly - I really made sure of that - and had it in maybe eight or so times after trying various settings in the bios (with help of the old card).

I guess it's just bad? To tell you the truth now, I'm not sure whether I get a post. After the error beeps (1 long and 3 short), the computer continues with some process with the HD, but then, short of a minute, shuts down; I just can't see what it's doing because the screen is black.

[Hellmund]

Try it in someone elses machine if you can, other things that can cause the machine not to post if is the ram/cpu is not seated properly. The Vid-card though is the likely culprit.